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Christoph is a psychologist by training, and since 2013 Professor for Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich. He worked at the Cognitive Science Center of the University of Freiburg, Germany as an assistant & associate level professor from 2003-2013. He is a principal investigator on two projects on architecture and human behavior in the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition, R6-SpaceGuide and I6-NavTalk. Christoph is an honorary senior research fellow at University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, and a visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara. The overarching applied goal of Christoph’s research is to enable evidence-based design to address building usability requirements and improve our understanding of human spatial cognition.

The SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition is an interdisciplinary collaborative research center located at the University of Bremen and the University of Freiburg. It has been funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2003.

More than 70 researchers from different disciplines, e.g. informatics, psychology, and linguistics, investigate human cognitive structures and abilities concerning space as well as basic structures to deal with spatial information. In terms of application they want to utilize these findings for software of autonomous systems.